JOB 41:4 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Yahweh (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX (JOB 40:28) Θήσεται δὲ μετὰ σοῦ διαθήκην; λήψῃ δὲ αὐτὸν δοῦλον αἰώνιον;
(Thaʸsetai de meta sou diathaʸkaʸn; laʸpsaʸ de auton doulon aiōnion;)

BrTr (JOB 40:28) And will he make a covenant with thee? and wilt thou take him for a perpetual servant?

ULT Will it cut a covenant with you?
⇔ Will you take it for a servant forever?

UST Leviathan would certainly not make an agreement to work for you
⇔ as your slave for as long as it lived!

BSB & MSB Will he make a covenant with you
⇔ to take him as a slave for life?

OEB No OEB JOB 41:4 book available

WEBBE & WMBB Will he make a covenant with you,
⇔ that you should take him for a servant forever?

MSG ^(1-11)“Or can you pull in the sea beast, Leviathan, with a fly rod
  and stuff him in your creel?
Can you lasso him with a rope,
  or snag him with an anchor?
Will he beg you over and over for mercy,
  or flatter you with flowery speech?
Will he apply for a job with you
  to run errands and serve you the rest of your life?
Will you play with him as if he were a pet goldfish?
  Will you make him the mascot of the neighborhood children?
Will you put him on display in the market
  and have shoppers haggle over the price?
Could you shoot him full of arrows like a pin cushion,
  or drive harpoons into his huge head?
If you so much as lay a hand on him,
  you won’t live to tell the story.
What hope would you have with such a creature?
  Why, one look at him would do you in!
If you can’t hold your own against his glowering visage,
  how, then, do you expect to stand up to me?
Who could confront me and get by with it?
  I’m in charge of all this—I run this universe!

NET Will it make a pact with you,
⇔ so you could take it as your slave for life?

LSV Does he make a covenant with you? Do you take him for a perpetual servant?

FBV Will it make a contract with you? Will it agree to be your slave forever?

T4T Will they make an agreement with you to work for you,
⇔ to be your slaves as long as they live?

LEB • Will it make a covenant with you?
• Will you take it as a slave forever?

BBE Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?

Moff Will he come to terms with you,
⇔ always to be at your service?

JPS No JPS JOB 40:28 verse available

ASV Will he make a covenant with thee,
⇔ That thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?

DRA (JOB 40:23) Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever?

YLT Doth he make a covenant with thee? Dost thou take him for a servant age-during?

Drby Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him as a bondman for ever?

RV Will he make a covenant with thee, that thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?
(Will he make a covenant with thee/you, that thou/you shouldest/should take him for a servant forever?)

SLT Will he cut out a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant forever?

Wbstr Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

KJB-1769 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
(Will he make a covenant with thee/you? wilt/will thou/you take him for a servant forever?)

KJB-1611 Will he make a couenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a seruant for euer?
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps Wyll he make a couenaunt with thee? or wilt thou take him for a seruaunt for euer?
(Will he make a covenant with thee/you? or wilt/will thou/you take him for a servant forever?)

Gnva Who can discouer the face of his garmet? or who shall come to him with a double bridle?
(Who can discover the face of his garment? or who shall come to him with a double bridle?)

Cvdl Wyll he make a couenaunt with the? Or, art thou able for to compell him to do the contynuall seruyce?
(Will he make a covenant with the? Or, art thou/you able for to compel him to do the continual service?)

Wycl (JOB 40:23) Whether he schal make couenaunt with thee, and `thou schalt take him a seruaunt euerlastinge?
(Whether he shall make covenant with thee/you, and thou/you shalt/shall take him a servant everlasting?)

Luth (JOB 40:28) Meinest du, daß er einen Bund mit dir machen werde, daß du ihn immer zum Knecht habest?
(My you(sg), that he a federation/agreement with you/to_you(sg) make become, that you(sg) him/it always for_the servant/farmhand have?)

ClVg (JOB 40:23) Numquid feriet tecum pactum, et accipies eum servum sempiternum?
(Is_it will_hit with_you agreement, and you_will_receive him a_servant eternal?)

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

הֲ⁠יִכְרֹ֣ת בְּרִ֣ית עִמָּ֑⁠ךְ תִּ֝קָּחֶ֗⁠נּוּ לְ⁠עֶ֣בֶד עוֹלָֽם

will,it_make? (Some words not found in UHB: will,it_make? covenant with,you will,you_take_it? to,a_slave_of forever )

Yahweh is using the question form for emphasis. If a speaker of your language would not use the question form for that purpose, you could translate these questions as statements or as exclamations. Alternate translation: [It would not cut a covenant with you! You could not take it for a servant forever!]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

הֲ⁠יִכְרֹ֣ת בְּרִ֣ית עִמָּ֑⁠ךְ

will,it_make? (Some words not found in UHB: will,it_make? covenant with,you will,you_take_it? to,a_slave_of forever )

Yahweh is speaking as if Leviathan could intelligently make legal arrangements. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [If it could cut covenants, it would not cut one with you!]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

הֲ⁠יִכְרֹ֣ת בְּרִ֣ית

will,it_make? (Some words not found in UHB: will,it_make? covenant with,you will,you_take_it? to,a_slave_of forever )

See how you translated the expression “cut a covenant” in [31:1](../31/01.md). Alternate translation: [Will it make a covenant]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

עוֹלָֽם

forever

The word translated forever does not mean for eternity. It describes an indefinite future period. In this context, it describes becoming a servant without any specified term of service, that is, for life. You could indicate that in your translation if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [for the rest of its life]

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